News
2026
- Oct 2026: Dave and Gideon post “Episodic looking”, a new version of our episodic learning work, on arXiv
- Feb 2026: Dave and Gideon post a paper on active perception and disentangled representations for continual zero- and few-shot learning
2025
- Jul 2025: Guixuan starts the Model Free / Model Based project for a Monash Masters
- Jun 2025: We're extending WMAR with an international team of students spanning Europe and the Mideast
- Mar 2024: A new Monash Masters project kick off! Ben on L/R Hippocampus.
- Mar 2024: Monash Masters projects continue: Joel on extending 'Graceful task adaptation'
2024
- Sep 2024: ACAIN 2024 -- we're presenting 2 papers on Bi-hemispheric models, one for image recognition, the other for motor control (see publications)
- Sep 2024: Graceful task adaptation in an RL agent by Grant (Masters) is accepted to AJCAI 2024!
- Jul 2024: Our paper on a new benchmark for continual few-shot learning is published in PLOS
- Jul 2024: Joel (Masters) begins a new phase of the bilateral RL agent for graceful task adaptation in Continual RL
- Jan 2024: Haowei (Masters) begins a new phase of our bilateral vision projects, adding a corpus callosum
- Jan 2024: Jarrad's preprint on bilateral motor control is out
- Jan 2024: Luke's preprint on World Model+Replay for Model Based Continual RL is out
2023
- Dec 2023: Jarrad and Luke complete their theses, woo hoo!
- Jul 2023: New Monash Masters student Grant Nicholas begins the bilateral RL project (click for project info)
- Feb 2023: New Monash Honours student Luke Yang begins the Hippocampal inspired continual RL project (click for project info)
- Feb 2023: New Monash Masters student Jarrad Rinaldo begins the bilateral brain 'motor control' project (click for project info)
2022
- Sep 2022: Chandramouli (intern) begins a new chapter as a Masters student at USCD. Congratulations and good luck!
- Sep 2022: We complete two long awaited pre-prints: Deep Learning with a Bilateral (2 hemispheres) architecture, and continual few-shot learning
- Jul 2022: Yanfeng begins his Masters, extending the work on Bilateral Deep Learning
- Apr 2022: Gideon presented a poster on version 2 of Bilateral Deep Learning at NAISYS 2022
- March 2022: Congrats to Karina, moving to a full time Data Science role. And to Abdel, for starting a PhD at UNSW (jointly supervised by Cerenaut)
- Feb 2022: Abdel begins a PhD at UNSW, with Cerenaut co-supervising. The topic is to use hippocampal modelling to improve continual learning.
2021
- Dec 2021: Congratulations to Amir for successfully completing his Masters project on Left and Right neural networks, inspired by our bicameral brains.
- Dec 2021: Congratulations to Mohit for successfully completing his Masters on disentangled representations to improve episodic memory.
- Nov 2021: Welcome to Chandramouli Rajagopalan, intern working on version 2 of the bicameral brain.
- Sep 2021: We are grateful to receive the Decision Making Initiative grant from DSI on Effective updating of deep learning models with limited new data
- Oct 2021: The Working Memory hackathon draws to a close. Congratulations to all the participants.
- Jul 2021: We presented 2 papers at IJCNN (RSM and Consolidation with AHA)
- Jun 2021: Kicked of the Working Memory Hackathon with WBAI
- May 2021: CFP for the Working Memory Hackathon (with WBAI) is out!
- May 2021: 2 papers accepted into IJCNN, on RSM and using AHA for memory Consolidation - see https://cerenaut.ai/publications
- Feb 2021: We're excited to welcome 2 new Masters students from Monash Uni. Amir Mayan working on the Left and Right Brain project (inspired by Elkhonon Goldberg), and Mohit Gupta working on improving episodic memory with disentangled representations.
2020
- Nov 2020: Satya presents paper at AI2020, on self-organising networks
- Nov 2020: Gideon presents paper at AI2020, on one-shot learning of instances as well as classes, using AHA (hippocampal architecture)
- Nov 2020: Satya presents poster at NAISys on self-organising networks
- Nov 2020: Gideon presents poster at NAISys on using AHA to consolidate memories
- Sep 2020: Jeremy (Numenta) presents the paper from our collaboration, at ANNPR, on Boosted RSM
- June 2020: 5th WBAI Hackathon is coming
- Feb 2020: Gideon will present new results from the AHA model at NAISYS (CSHL)
- Jan 2020: Monash student An Nguyen will do his Masters using RL to learn attentional strategies for RSM
2019
- Dec 2019: Boosted-RSM preprint available - collaboration with Jeremy Gordon and Subutai Ahmad from Numenta
- Dec 2019: Kok-Ping, Monash Uni summer student, continues the Self-organizing project
- Nov 2019: Satya completes his Monash Uni Masters research project with us on Self-organizing Architectures
- Nov 2019: Gideon is presenting at a Timeseries Melbourne Meetup on AHA
- Oct 15 2019: Dave is presenting at the Melbourne MLAI Meetup
- Sep 2019: Episodic memory paper preprint available
- July 2019: We welcome Bar Gal On as Commercial Director
- June 2019: PhD student Shuai Sun begins APR internship with us to develop a clinical report feedback system in conjunction with Melbourne Health
- May 2019: Recurrent Sparse Memory paper preprint available
- Feb 2019: Satya Borgohain starts MSc project on self-organizing neural architectures co-supervised by us and Faculty of IT at Monash University
2018
- Sep 2018: New RFRs published on Bicameral Machine Learning models and self organising architectures.
- Jun 2018: We are thrilled to announce that we have begun a collaboration with Elkhonon Goldberg of Luria Neuroscience Institute, and that he is now an Advisor to Project AGI.
- Jun 2018: Published first "Requests for Research" in conjunction with WBAI
- Apr 2018: Released ArXiv paper "Sparse Unsupervised Capsules Generalize Better"
- Feb 2018: Project AGI visits WBAI in Tokyo and presents at Tokyo University
- Jan 2018: We are excited to announce that Project AGI is now collaborating with the Whole-Brain Architecture Initiative (WBAI)!